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Supporting Skagit County (WA) Families in Need

Hard Times On September 29, 2008, the stock market crashed, and many families in the U.S. and Canada faced a major economic recession and the prospect of losing their jobs or wages. What happens when parents find themselves unable to pay for the basics? What do they do when there are too little resources for something as seemingly simple as providing their child with a clean diaper? In 2010, the Huggies Every Little Bottom Study (Diaper Need in the U.S. and Canada), generated by interest in...

Millions couldn’t afford diapers before the pandemic. Now, diaper banks can’t keep up (Washington Post)

By Hannah Denham, March 1, 2021, Washington Post. Without federal aid, diaper banks struggle to keep up with skyrocketing need and fewer donations Chelesa Presley is deeply familiar with the struggles of young families, first from her years as a social worker and now from running a nonprofit in one of Mississippi’s poorest regions. She’s used to the questions about car seats, nursing and colicky babies, but paying for diapers is always the chronic and most-pressing worry. “I see parents not...

Supporting Skagit County (WA) Families in Need

What happened after the declarative and impassioned report of the Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children (Challenge for the 1970’s)? 25 years later (1994) In 1994 came The Report of the Carnegie Task Force on Meeting the Needs of Young Children drawing attention to the first three years of life. The Task Force wrote: “Across the United States, we are beginning to hear the rumblings of a quiet crisis. Our nations’ children under the age of three and their families are in trouble,...

Online workshop Nov 30, Dev 7 & 14 - Reimagining Resilience - Through a Trauma Lens

For more information and to register - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/124637117975 Reimagining Resilience: Using a Trauma Lens helps adults build positive relationships with children who have experienced trauma. We will explore the impact of adverse experiences and the effect they have on developing brains and student behavior. The course gives teachers, parents, and other adults working closely with kids the skills they need to make sure that every child knows that they matter. An online...

Supporting Skagit County (WA) Families in Need

Welcome to this blog. If you are new, I just left off writing about Dr. Peter Neubauer, Task Force Chairman on the Report of the Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children in the late 60's. Dr. Neubauer noted that just two decades earlier, when we talked about rearing infants, we really weren’t able to specify the importance of love and affection. He pointed out that we also had a lot to learn about launching healthy children: knowledge about early learning, emotional development, and...

Supporting Skagit County (WA) Families in Need

It is told that Frederick II, Holy Roman emperor, and King of Sicily in the 13 th century wanted to find out what kinds of speech children would have when they grew up if no one spoke to them beforehand. He conducted an experiment whereby the children were fed and bathed, but the foster mothers were not to speak or play with them. The king labored in vain because the children all died. Seven hundred years later, a whole series of studies of children raised in institutions without the loving...

A Better Normal Community Discussion - Reimagining Health Care

In a conversational style, join physician Drew Factor who will speak with Dr. Tracy Gaudet, Liza Guroff and An é Watts in a discussion entitled "Reimagining Health Care". Dr. Gaudet will speak about her experience engaging in transformational change at the Veterans Administration and how this has shaped the development of her own Functional Medicine Institute , while Ms. Guroff and Ms. Watts will speak about their knowledge of a Trauma-Informed Approach both at a systems (National Council...

Supporting Skagit County (WA) Families in Need

Good day and welcome to this blog. I look forward to discussing with you something I observed some eight years ago; something that immediately caught my attention and is no less important to me today. Retired (from a career in maternity nursing) for not too long, I learned a food bank was starting up in my community and decided to volunteer. It took several months to really get things up and going; but we eventually got very busy. One day, a couple of young women came in looking for diapers.

NOW AVAILABLE ON DEMAND: The Repressed Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Adult Well-Being, Disease and Social Functioning: Turning Gold into Lead (Dr. Vincent J. Felitti) [avahealth.org]

The ACE Study reveals how typically unrecognized adverse childhood experiences are not only common, but causally underlie a number of the most common causes of adult social malfunction, biomedical disease, and premature death. Moreover, it enables one to see that the Public Health Problem is often an individual’s attempted Solution to childhood experiences about which we keep ourselves unaware. A renowned physician and researcher, Dr. Vincent J. Felitti is one of the world’s foremost experts...

Landscape of ACEs-related data from national surveys in the United States

Compiling data sources of ACEs statistics is critical to identify gaps in ACEs research in the US and Georgia. There is a lack of consistent data on ACE statistics. Resilient Georgia is an Atlanta-based organization that works towards creating an integrated behavioral health system by streamlining public and private efforts and resources to enhance trauma informed care through research, policy, and practice in Georgia. University of Georgia (UGA), College of Public Health Ph.D. student Kiran...

Introducing the Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Film Festival & Follow-Up Discussions

Transform Trauma with ACEs Sciences Film Festival & Follow-Up Discussions The following weekend watch parties and follow-up discussions are co-hosted by ACEs Connection, The Relentless School Nurse , and The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice (CTIPP) . We appreciated the filmmakers for making these films free to watch for our members and for the public programming of PBS. The films we’ll feature are as follows: Portraits of Professional Caregivers Whole People Part 1...

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